Home bias and employee social responsibility: Identification vs. benefit exchange

ABSTRACT: Employees, as the most valuable assets and critical sources of competitive advantage in enterprises, are among the important stakeholders in enterprises. Employee social responsibility (ESR) has been a continually important research interest in the field of enterprise social responsibility. However, in the literature, few studies explore how personal features affect employee social responsibility. Thus, sampling China’s listed companies from 2006 to 2019, we investigate how the home bias of senior executives influences enterprises’ employee social responsibility. We identify home bias based on whether a chairperson’s or CEO’s hometown matches the firm’s registration place. Three main results are obtained. First, the home bias of both CEOs and chairpersons can improve the corporate fulfillm

SUBMITTER: Zhang T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9731460 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature